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Basic Income: The Potential for Gendered Empowerment?

Basic income is likely to gain momentum as the next social welfare trend to sweep over the world with ideas of how to improve the fairness and efficiency of distributing money. Other earlier movements with similar ambitions to transform societies, ranging across the political spectrum from socialism to neo-liberalism, have led to very different consequences for strata of citizens, but have in common that they have de-prioritised gender equality in favour of other interests. Advocates of basic income suggest that in addition to pragmatic gains, such as a more efficient state administration, primarily a basic income will empower citizens, leading to the potential for greater human flourishing. Our question is whether this empowerment will be gendered and if so, how? So far, the basic income debate addresses gender only in so far as it would raise the income of the poorest, of whom a larger proportion are women. However, it is less clear how it might contribute to a transformation of gendered behaviour, making possible divergent shapes of life where binary and set notions of gender are not a restriction. We discuss the idea of basic income from a perspective of gender equality in the Swedish context.

Basic Income: The Potential for Gendered Empowerment?

Urheber*in: Duvander, Ann-Zofie; Koslowski, Alison

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ISSN
2183-2803
Umfang
Seite(n): 8-15
Sprache
Englisch
Anmerkungen
Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Erschienen in
Social Inclusion, 6(4)

Thema
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie
Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
soziale Sicherung
Grundsicherung
Empowerment
Feminismus
Gleichstellung
Elternurlaub
Gleichberechtigung
geschlechtsspezifische Faktoren
Schweden
EU

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Duvander, Ann-Zofie
Koslowski, Alison
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wann)
2018

DOI
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  • Zeitschriftenartikel

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  • Duvander, Ann-Zofie
  • Koslowski, Alison

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  • 2018

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